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Meanings of rampart in inglés

ruso
обваловка
portugués
reparo
catalán
muralla de ciutat
español
antemuralla
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Length of bank or wall forming part of the defensive boundary of a fortification.

        antemuralla
        portugués
        baluarte
        catalán
        muralla
        español
        muralla

        An embankment built around a space for defensive purposes.

              muralla
              Synonyms
              Examples for "city rampart"
              Examples for "city rampart"
              1
              In the very front, now nearing the city ramparts, was one man.
              Greenmantle
              2
              The artillery responds from the city ramparts.
              The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X
              3
              The Cossacks retired, preparing to go into camp; but the Lyakhs showed themselves again on the city ramparts with tattered mantles.
              Taras Bulba, and Other Tales
              4
              For modern-day outlaws, you can visit Freetown Christiana, the former army barracks and city ramparts claimed by hippies during the 1970s.
              Reuters
              5
              They came across the East River at Kips Bay, about three miles above the city ramparts, near the Murray Hill estate.
              New york: the novel
              Usage of rampart in inglés
              1
              The rampart is lofty and of many colours, in the rainbow style.
              The Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02
              2
              And he heard footsteps up on the rampart moving toward his position.
              Sister of the dead
              3
              The rampart of the Alps stood out more clearly against the sky.
              A Prisoner in Fairyland (The Book That 'Uncle Paul' Wrote)
              4
              The sound fell dead against the rampart of a thousand listening trees.
              The Man Whom the Trees Loved
              5
              It is rampart, towering and impregnable, between the garden and the desert.
              The California Birthday Book / Prose and Poetical Selections fro...
              6
              The unclimbed, five-mile-long rampart of the South Buttress angled toward the summit.
              Climbing Magazine
              7
              The Highlanders who had scaled the rampart had all been bayoneted within.
              French and English: A Story of the Struggle in America
              8
              But under the snow, behind the charmed rampart, slept the living germs.
              Field and Hedgerow: Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies
              9
              He included his naval camp also within one and the same rampart.
              The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36
              10
              Not the Romans, but the people that lived within that flaming rampart.
              Expositions of Holy Scripture / Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor P...
              11
              It had four bastions and a rampart three and one-half feet long.
              Historic Boyhoods
              12
              At their backs, raised up on a long rampart, was the artillery.
              Imperatrix
              13
              Behind us, the towering, frowning rampart-wall of Archimedes loomed against the sky.
              Brigands of the Moon
              14
              Two or three light-rays originate from a point on the W. rampart.
              The Moon: A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical F...
              15
              Its irregular rampart is prominently terraced, and its continuity on the N.E.
              The Moon: A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical F...
              16
              There's a regular rampart, half the county in fact, before that fire.
              The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance
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              United Kingdom
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              United States of America
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